Accused 'abused boys' under guise of pagan rituals

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A businessman attending a National Party conference in Queensland performed sex acts with a teenage boy under the guise of pagan rituals, a court heard today.

Garry Robin Ford, 45, has pleaded not guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to 39 charges including procuring an indecent act, sodomy and supplying drugs in 1989 and 1990.

In his opening address, Prosecutor Todd Fuller said Ford, who at the time was running a media relations business, would use sex acts during pagan rituals to induct boys into the "White Brotherhood".

Mr Fuller said that in late 1989, Ford took one boy to a bat cave near Rockhampton in central Queensland and performed a "ritual" involving sex acts.

"They'd gone to Yeppoon, (near Rockhampton) for a National Party conference," Mr Fuller said.

"He (the boy) thinks Garry Ford had some connections with the National Party."

The court was told Ford had relationships with six teenage boys aged between 13 and 16, attracting them with video games and free food, alcohol, cannabis and magic mushrooms at his homes, first at Windsor in Brisbane's inner-north and later at Sunnybank, on the city's southside.

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He would often conduct what he said were pagan rituals in his lounge room, chanting and sitting around a ring of candles, the court heard.

One of the rituals involved Ford drinking the sperm of two boys after mixing it with their blood, saying this would "bind" them together forever.

The trial is continuing before Justice Debra Mullins and is expected to continue for 10 days.